Shipping-receptacle.



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SHIPPING REOEPT AGLE.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915. I

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SHIPPING EBGEPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED rmmz, 1914.

Patented Jan. 12,1915.

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SHIPFING-IRECEPTACLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 312, 19115 Application filed February 12, 1914. Serial No. 818,219.

To all whom it may concern Be 'it known that 1, CHARLES R. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to receptacles, such as pails, buckets or drums, used for shipping dry products. Receptacles for such purposes heretofore have been made of metal which involved a relatively high first cost, or entirely of fibrous material. This latter material reduced the initial-cost, but in'use has proved unsatisfactory on account of the weakness of the fashioned structure, especially at the edges, and the nature of the material which absorbs moisture, as when the bottoms of the receptacles came in contact with wet docks and platforms, etc., resulting in the swelling andvweakening of the material, the dissolution or softening of the cement commonly used to unite the parts, and the consequent distortion and easy destruction of the receptacles when subiected to strains or blows.

The object of my invention is the production of a shipping receptacle which shall eliminate the objectionable characteristics mentioned, as well as others, by making the same with a body of fibrous material and the top and bottom of metal and locking the edges of the fibrous body portion to the metal, whereby the top and bottom edges are rendered rigid and capable of resisting, without injury, strains and blows, and whereby. the bottom is protected from water and moisture.

With this general end in view, the invention consists in certain novelties of construction and combinations of parts as herein set forth and claimed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an example of the embodiment of the invention, the parts being constructed and combined according to one of the best methods of procedure I haveso far devised for the purpose.

Figure 1 is a side view in elevation of a shipping receptacle in the form of a pail, the body being of flexible fibrous material, as paper board, and the bottom and cover of metal, as tin or other thin metal which can readily be fashioned or pressed to the desired shape. Fig. 2 is a vertical section in elevation of Fig. '1 on line w-w. Fig. 3

is a plan view on a reduced scale of the cut blank of fibrous material or board before being bent to a circular shape and the edges united to form the body portion. Fig. 4 is a section of the fashioned metallic bot- 4 tom with a circular flange, I, also showing the circumferential groove Within which the circular lower edge of the fibrous body portion is to be locked.

Referring'to the figures, A designates the blank of fibrous material cut to the required shape; B, the fashioned body formed by bending the blank to a cylindrical or conical shape with the edges lapped; C, the rivets uniting the lapped edges; D, the removable metallic cover preferably; pressed to shape between dies, but which may be otherwise fashioned; E, a U-shaped circumferential groove to frictionally receive the top circular edge of the body portion; F, the metallic bottom pressed to the shape shown or fashioned otherwise, a circumferential groove G being provided to. receive the lower edge of the fibrous body portion, and a pad H of fibrous material-being secured to the top surface of the metallic bottom by turningdown the struck up circular edge I of metal upon the edge of the pad, the pad serving the purpose of preventing the contents of the receptacle coming in contact with the metallic bottom; and J designates the rivets passed through the extended circular outer edge or band of the metallic bottom and the lower part of the fibrous body ortion.

The pail may e provided with a bail K secured to ears L fastened to opposite sides of the body portion by rivets. The metallic edge of the cover at M and the metallic edge N of the band of the bottom are preferably turned over to secure additional rigidity of the cover and bottom.

By reason of the shape of the circumferential groove E in the cover, when said cover is placed in position the fibrous top edge of the body portion will be slightly bent or (118- torted and consequently a frictional contact of the surfaces will be secured forming a tight joint and the friction will be sufficient to hold the cover in position so considerable energy will be required to remove 1t.

In addition to the means shown for securing the metallic bottom to the lower edge of the body portion, cement may be employed, or the metal of the pro ect1ng rim at opposite sides of the fibrous lower edge may be pressed against the said fibrous material, compressing the same between the metallic surfaces so that the bottom cannot be removed without rupturing the edge or tearing it away. Should the bottom receive a blow of suflicient energy to indent or bend the metal inwardly, it will the more securely lock the fibrous material in place.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings it becomes clear that I have produced a shipping receptacle which fulfils'the conditions specified as the object of the invention.

The first cost of such a structure as I have produced is relatively cheap; the lower edge of the body portion is protected from moisture; the bottom is rendered very rigid by the angular cross section of the metal at the edge and bythe metal flange-which holds the fibrous pad in place; the top edge is rendered rigid by the cross sectional shape of the cover at the edge; the cover is frictionally locked to the top edge of the pail so it will not accidentally become displaced; and blows, when imparted to the cover or the bottom, serve to lock the top and lower edges of the fibrous material of the body portion more securely in position. I

Obviously, the invention may be embodied in connection with body portions of difierent shapes from that shown; any kind of suitable metal be used for the cover and bottom; and any suitable fibrous material be selected for the body portion.

lVhat I claim is:

1. The combination in a shipping receptacle, of a body portion of fibrous material having top and lower plain edges, a metallic cover which when in place entirely closes the end of the receptacle and having a circumferential groove formed therein adapted to frictionally engage the top edge of the fibrous body portion, and a metallic bottom entirely closing the end of the receptacle and having a circumferential groove at the outer edge within which groove the lower edge of the fibrous body portion is locked and permanently secured.

' 2. The combination in a shipping receptacle, of a body portion of a fibrous material, a metallic bottom entirely closing the end of the receptacle and provided with a band and a circumferential groove adjacent to the band within which groove the lower fibrous edge of the body portion is permanently secured, and a fibrous pad secured in contact with the interior surface of the metallic I bottom.

close one end of the receptacle and having a circular band, a circumferential groove of a U shape adjacent to the inner lower edge of the band, and a circular flange adapted to be turned down to secure a'pad to the inner surface of said bottom.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES REDFIELD SMITH.

\Vitnesses HARRY E. KING, EDWARD'W. KELSEY, Jr. 

